Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively and Living Well, Full Edition (5th Edition) (Pearson Custom Student Success and Career Development) [Paperback]

Robert M. Sherfield (Author), Rhonda J. Montgomery (Author), Patricia G. Moody (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0132428113 | ISBN-13: 978-0132428118 | Publication Date: January 7, 2007 | Edition: 5

Finally, a textbook that actually uses reading and critical thinking strategies rather than just talking about them.  This new, compelling fifth edition of Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively and Living Wellreflects a deeper focus on self-responsibility and active learning.  It effectively utilizes SQ3R throughout, underscoring its importance to student success.  Also new to this edition is the implementation of Bloom’s Taxonomy through a feature titled Knowledge in Bloom.  This chapter-end activity helps students apply the information from each chapter by prompting them to reflect and respond to questions from each level of Bloom’s.  Two new chapters on money and debt management and self-engagement meet students where they are. A totally revised and updated chapter on change and goal setting highlights the relationships between realistic goals and ushering positive change into one’s life. 

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I love that the text uses Bloom’s taxonomy.  The change implementation model is an effective piece to promote discussions and tie those concepts to student learning and academic self.  It allows students to make those connections and transfer knowledge and skill to other courses.  The activities promote self discovery and understanding, with a pinch of hope and promise of a better academic life!

--Todd Phillips

-- East Central College

 

This text is clearly superior to many of the study skills books that are in circulation today.  It is so down to earth, uses concrete examples, case scenarios and allows students the ability to assess and correct their thoughts and behaviors.

-- Betty Fortune

-- Houston Community College

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Finally, a textbook that actually uses reading and critical thinking strategies rather than just talking about them.  This new, compelling fifth edition of Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively and Living Wellreflects a deeper focus on self-responsibility and active learning.  It effectively utilizes SQ3R throughout, underscoring its importance to student success.  Also new to this edition is the implementation of Bloom’s Taxonomy through a feature titled Knowledge in Bloom.  This chapter-end activity helps students apply the information from each chapter by prompting them to reflect and respond to questions from each level of Bloom’s.  Two new chapters on money and debt management and self-engagement meet students where they are. A totally revised and updated chapter on change and goal setting highlights the relationships between realistic goals and ushering positive change into one’s life. 

 

Exciting Additional Revisions include:

• The BIG WHY!!  (Author Perspective) and The BIG WHY (Student Perspective) - offers advice from the authors AND former students as to WHY the chapter is important to the student’s success, knowledge, college survival, and overall well-being.
• From Ordinary to Extraordinary:  Real Stories of Personal Triumph - individual, brief biographies of ordinary Americans who faced and overcame huge obstacles and adversity going on to reach goals and dreams.
• Where are You…. AT THIS MOMENT? - popular feature’s scoring and interpretation has been significantly revised and simplified.
• The extraordinary supplemental resource package has been expanded to better fit faculty and student needs!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (January 7, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132428113
• ISBN-13: 978-0132428118
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #800,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not What I thought It would be, September 28, 2008

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This review is from: Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively and Living Well, Full Edition (5th Edition) (Pearson Custom Student Success and Career Development) (Paperback)

I only purchased this book because I needed It for my Freshman Seminar class in college. To my surprise this book is actually way more helpful then I expected, everything I thought I could never learn(i.e Time management, stress relief etc..) is thought in this book and I love it <3
definitely a must have for any college student regardless of weather is is required reading :-)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, July 16, 2010

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This review is from: Cornerstone: Discovering Your Potential, Learning Actively and Living Well, Full Edition (5th Edition) (Pearson Custom Student Success and Career Development) (Paperback)

With this book, I was never unprepared. The assignments were given in a timely manner, questions was not hard answer from the way the book was setup. This book also is a great tool to help you retain what you've learned so you won't be stumped on tests.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Written for idiots., January 9, 2012

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This review is from: Cornerstone: Creating Success Through Positive Change (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I had to read this book for a college course. I read four pages from the first chapter and went on to answer three chapters' questions simply by guessing. Maybe I've been jaded by unusually difficult engineering courses (I doubt this) but this book makes you feel like an idiot just reading it. A good example is that they had a page of material for a scenario of a failing student committing to join a study group. She broke it down into 5 steps, made a mission statement and who bunch of other worthless steps opposed to just going over and asking "can I join your study group?" This book seems full of material just like that, I'm quite sure I could give this to a ten year old and have them comprehend every bit of it.